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The Living Daylights

1987 · directed by John Glen · 130 min · PG
22,612 feet · Prominence
1,802nd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw72

Lifetime worldwide gross $191m, re-releases included; about $555m in 2026 money.

Rank521 of 11,051In 19875 of 162

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise67

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics67 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Dalton's debut, respectable mid-Bond.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb6.7 from 113kWikipedia0k views a monthAge39 years

Scored beside it · 1,909 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 72 praise 67 legacy 38averages 59, placing it at22,612 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Maryam D'Abo

In these careers — elevation for this film

Timothy Dalton19,201 ftJeroen Krabbé18,272 ftJoe Don Baker18,215 ftMaryam D'Abo18,044 ftJohn Rhys-Davies18,035 ftArt Malik17,984 ftHanno Pöschl17,624 ft